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MB not happy that a club that promotes youth players is punished by losing them to the NT. GG might get a run in Brisbane as DM, gaffer seems to be happy with what he's been seeing in training so far. And if I understood him correctly what he said towards the end of the interview, there won't be "massive" squad changes after this season, but "we have to do something, and we will do something".

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I’m being deliberately naive but the current cap system which is in place is broken. It doesn’t balance out the league. You already see SFC and MV exploiting it and CCM scraping the bottom of the barrel. This is already when we have a cap floor of 10%.
If City wanted to spent more money within the current cap system to win the league they could. They even tried with the Cahill rule where they essentially had 3 marquees. Frankly, the HAL is much lower in their pecking order and they would rather spend on their MLS, JLeague or CSL investments first before us.
I get the need to provide some balance so clubs can’t simply buy out the comp but this is when transfer fees and foreign player restrictions come in. If CCM unearthed a great young player and City wanted to buy them out for next year, having to pay a transfer fee will help CCM financially and it would a fair trade for both clubs. You can even introduce a tax so the FFA get a cut.
I just don’t like the cap because it isn’t doing what it is intended and it perpetuates a falsehood that the HAL is balanced.